''glioblastoma'' ▫ᴱᴺ｜Definition｜1st｜20260821000353-00-⌔

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English

Noun

glioblastoma (plural glioblastomas or glioblastomata)

• A fast-growing, malignant tumor of the brain.
  • ✤ Cushing had found ingenious ways to surgically extract brain tumors, including the notorious glioblastomas —tumors so heavily crisscrossed with blood vessels that they could hemorrhage any minute.¹
  • ✤ Hardy Fox […] died on Oct. 30 at his home in San Anselmo, Calif. He was 73. His husband, Steven Kloman, said the cause was glioblastoma.²

Etymology

From glio- +‎ blastoma.

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Footnotes

1. 2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 71: ↩

2. 2018 November 4, Daniel E. Slotnik, “Hardy Fox, of the Avant-Garde Band the Residents (Maybe), Dies at 73”, in The New York Times ‎${}^{[1]}$, →ISSN: ↩